Health May 07 Johnson & Johnson creates panel to look into experimental drug access Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson said today that it would tap bioethicist Arthur Caplan of the NYU School of Medicine to lead an independent group overseeing requests from dying patients to use experimental medications.
Nation Mar 06 What’s the state of assisted suicide laws across the U.S.? Since last fall, the laws governing assisted suicide -- even in states where the practice is legal -- have continued to evolve.
Nation Feb 22 Bitter cold temperatures push some Americans toward poverty line In Asheville, N.C., and other cities across the country, funding cuts for the federal government's Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program have meant that private nonprofits are left to fill in the gaps.
Nation Jan 24 Poll: Should employers doing background checks be blocked from seeing nonviolent criminal offenses? A growing number of jurisdictions are banning preliminary questions about job applicants’ criminal records. But advocates suggest a policy that goes a step further: to seal nonviolent, low-level criminal offenses that are more than ten years old, effectively blocking employers…
Nation Nov 25 VIDEO: Fires, smoke and gunshots disrupt Ferguson protests Hours after the grand jury’s decision in the Micahel Brown case was made public, fires erupted in Ferguson Missouri. Several buildings and a police car were fully engulfed in flames by 11 p.m. local time. The St. Louis Post Dispatch…
Nation Nov 24 St. Louis demonstrators say they’re marching for all victims of police shootings Sunday night, protesters marched peacefully through several neighborhoods across St. Louis, as the national guard and police stood on standby. The demonstrators were anticipating a decision from the grand jury in the shooting of teenager Michael Brown by Ferguson police…
Nation Nov 22 ‘Above the law’: Responding to domestic violence on Indian reservations Native women in the U.S. face some of the highest levels of violence of any group. The Justice Department says acts of sexual assault against Native American women are most frequently committed by non-Indian men, who are generally immune to…
Nation Oct 19 Could this Chicago nonprofit be the answer to caring for the mentally ill? A Chicago nonprofit aims to set the standard for providing adequate health care coverage to the millions of Americans with mental illnesses. To learn more about the program, NewsHour Weekend spoke with one participant, Ruthie Anderson, who spent three decades…
World Sep 21 Fearing eviction, Hungary’s Roma wonder ‘are we next?’ Around 25,000 Roma people live in Miskolc, mostly in Roma-majority neighborhoods, and their situation is currently in peril.
Health Jun 21 Proposed laws on experimental drugs stir debate This May, Colorado's governor signed the nation's first "right to try" bill, which allows terminally ill patients to try unapproved — and potentially dangerous — drugs outside of clinical trials and without approval from federal regulators.